Some Pictures And Some(more) Superman-ness...

Mushroom Chicken Chop from Amoy Street Food Centre. The chef was formerly from The American Club. The bake potatoes are pretty good. Go try them. (Sorry, dunno Unit No. Only know they are opposite the ground floor Muslim food stalls) Photo taken last Friday.

Happened to see this aunty waiting for her husband to pick her up. Red on the left, red on the centre, red on the right, and she was wearing red... But the husband is a road hog, after picking her up, just snailed their stupid truck along the road. Irritated alot of motorists behind them. We wanna cross also cannot cross *pffftt!* Photo taken last Friday.

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It's not that I am unhappy with what God has given me. I have a droopy single eyelid and a very very deepset double eyelid.

Can't see the double eyelid right?

Voila! Managed to force it out! While practising the lazer eyes of Superman.

Yes, I watch Superman again! :D

But not Brandon-the-drop-dead-gorgeous-Routh version. It's the Christopher Reeve version 1 and 2. My bro loan it from Video Ezy, and it would be a pity to just watch it once. So I watched both movies at one go tonight.

I must confess I do not know the real story of Superman. Not as well as I know Batman or Spidey. So it was appropriate moment for me to catch up on the story of the Man of Steel in the midst of this revitalised craze.

Some observations:

- I do like the old Lois Lane who is more fiesty. But the sound her crying and yelling for help is very disturbing... It's so husky!

- She look significantly skinnier in part 2... Was she the one who became anaemic, like Karen Carpenter around the same time?

- Superman once threw away his power just to have sex with Lois Lane? Gosh... Some kinda super hero he is... I know... He wants to love like a normal person, blah blah blah... And the movies was made during the Free Love of the Yuppies...

- I love the Superman Theme Song... It's so grand... Gives me a funny feeling inside whenever it was played. I can imagine those bell-bottoms guys and their Farah Fawcett hairstyle girlfriends walk into the cinema hand in hand, eating kacang puteh from each other's cones... Hehe... Man, those were the days!

- Part 2 has more funny moments when Superman saves the world. And I guess the first movie must've made alot of money, so much so that they could afford opening scenes in Paris and another at the Nigera Waterfalls.

- During that time, cigarettes were allow to advertise on screen. I saw a Marlboro van in part 2.

- "Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel." Superman telling Lois Lane that flying is perfectly safe.
I thought it was a marketing phrase thrown in in the 2006 Superman. I may be right. Imagine if he never say that and people stop flying... The producers won't have enough to compensate the airline companies...

Thats all I can think of. For now.

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Translation class this time round is boring. The teacher is not engaging enough. Always sits at his desk and talks from there. His cross-examination of translated text are not very convincing leh.. Maybe because he still very inhibited speaking in English, even though he has been "overseas for 8 years". We can sense that, the accent still very strong.

He did hint to us on the market for Chinese-English translators out there, that we have an edge over the Chinese. And there is an urgent need for such personnels... Hmm....

Stirs up thoughts of where can I go and what can I do after this class ends... I am still not up to that standard yet... How? Gotta practice lor...

I am definitely going to go somewhere with this skill. I am not going to let the money go to waste.